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King Faisal tomb in Baghdad Crowd mourning King Faisal gather in front of the municipality street in Amman, Transjordan in 1933. King Faisal died of a heart attack on 8 September 1933 in Bern, Switzerland. [2] He was 48 years old at the time of his death. Faisal was succeeded on the throne by his eldest son, Ghazi.
Faisal was the only son of King Ghazi of Iraq and his wife, Queen Aliya, second daughter of 'Ali bin Hussein, King of the Hejaz and Grand Sharif of Mecca. Faisal's father was killed in a mysterious car crash when he was three years old; his father’s first cousin, Prince 'Abd al-Ilah , served as regent until Faisal came of age in 1953.
On 14 July, revolutionary forces seized control of the capital and proclaimed a new republic, headed by a Revolutionary Council. King Faisal and Crown Prince Abd al-Ilah were executed at the royal Al-Rehab Palace, bringing an end to the Hashemite dynasty in Iraq. Prime Minister al-Said attempted to flee but was captured and shot a day later.
In a documentary entitled Faisal, Legacy of a King, Faisal's grandson Amr bin Mohammed bin Faisal claims that the King had distanced himself from the world days before his death. Zaki Yamani claimed that King Faisal told his own relatives and friends about a dream he had in which his father, the late King Abdulaziz, was traveling in a car and ...
In order to establish a pro-British client regime, a dynasty of Hashemite kings from the Hejaz region was established, beginning with Faisal I who was the son of Hussein bin Ali. As a family originating in the Hejaz, the Hashemites was foreign to Iraq. The British Government appointed them as Iraq's royal family after a plebiscite in 1921. [1]
In 1973, Egyptian president Anwar Sadat held a meeting with King Faisal bin Abdulaziz in the palace to discuss matters pertaining to the Yom Kippur War. [8] Following the assassination of King Faisal in 1975, the palace was used by his successor, King Khalid bin Abdulaziz. In 1976, he hosted Egyptian president Anwar Sadat in the palace compound ...
On 27 May 2005, Fahd was admitted to the King Faisal Specialist Hospital due to pneumonia and a high fever. He died there on 1 August at around 09:30 KSA time. The official announcement of his death was made by the Minister of Information, Iyad bin Amin Madani, and Saudi television interrupted regular programming with recitations of the Quran. [4]
In 1965, Faisal's older brother Khaled [3] [4] was shot and killed by a Saudi police officer while he led an assault on a new television station in Riyadh that had been recently founded by King Faisal. [5] Some people opposed the establishment of a national television service, as they considered it immoral to produce images of humans. [6]